#health-insurance-subsidies

#health-insurance-subsidies

Trump also proposed to stop "sending big insurance companies billions in extra taxpayer-funded subsidy payments" and instead send the money directly to eligible Americans through their health savings account so they can purchase their own health insurance, according to a fact sheet. The plan would fund a cost-sharing reduction program for health plans and end kickbacks from pharmacy benefit managers to brokerage middlemen as well.

Once we get past this issue, there's decent agreement on everything else,

More than 40 million Americans will stop receiving food stamps on 1 November, as the US government shutdown enters its fifth week. The Department of Agriculture says the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) will be suspended until Congress reopens the government. While the Trump administration argues the department does not have the legal authority to use a $5bn contingency fund to continue the aid, Democrats disagree, and two dozen states have sued the government to force the program to continue.